Chair

Managing Sports Content and Live Events

This session examines the opportunities to engage with sports fans more deeply and monetize sports rights more successfully. It considers the evolution of sports packaging and distribution, including the role of direct-to-consumer services and how these are evolving. You will hear from media companies who are super-serving fans and creating new audiences around live and behind-the-scenes content.

WOLFSON THEATRE21 March 201814:00 – 15:40

14:00

The future of premium sports on television

Handling the growing cost of sports rights and the potential for increased competition in future

The ‘own-your-own sports’ model, and under-served sports that will work on TV

The evolution of sports packaging and pricing on Pay TV, including single-sport channels

Is sports still the big pull that it always was?

14:15

Super-serving fans and communities around live events with complimentary content

What Object Based Broadcasting offers to content providers, broadcasters and audiences

How the presentation of synchronised content (video, audio and data) across multiple screens enhances storytelling

Exploiting the value of tracking, timing and telemetry data

Challenges and opportunities for 360 degree video, VR and AR in live sports broadcasting